Related Clues:

• Adverse
• Not feeling 100 percent
• Start of a promise, perhaps
• '-- lied!'
• Bedridden, maybe
• Running a fever, usually
• ''___ be darned!''
• Bugged?
• Out of work, maybe
• "___ bite!"
• Unfavorable, as fortune
• ''. . . or __ thought''
• "--- be back!"
• "__ lied"
• ___-prepared